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>Yeltsin's entourage made an unexpected stop at a Randalls grocery store to see what the average American shopping experience was like. Guided through the store by its manager, a young man named Boris Johnson, Yeltsin was thoroughly impressed by the variety and accessibility of the store's wide variety of food products.
>Multiple commentators have noted that the grocery store and its manager had a major impact on Yeltsin's political views, with an aide who had been present with him during the trip saying that "the last vestige of Bolshevism collapsed inside" of him following the his meeting with that young man.
>Upon his return to the Soviet Union, Yeltsin continued to advocate for political reform and for closer ties with the United States. In 1991, he was elected president of Russia and, in that position, helped lead the country away from a communist system and towards a democratic capitalist one.
>Yeltsin's entourage made an unexpected stop at a Randalls grocery store to see what the average American shopping experience was like. Guided through the store by its manager, a young man named Boris Johnson, Yeltsin was thoroughly impressed by the variety and accessibility of the store's wide variety of food products.
>Multiple commentators have noted that the grocery store and its manager had a major impact on Yeltsin's political views, with an aide who had been present with him during the trip saying that "the last vestige of Bolshevism collapsed inside" of him following the his meeting with that young man.
>Upon his return to the Soviet Union, Yeltsin continued to advocate for political reform and for closer ties with the United States. In 1991, he was elected president of Russia and, in that position, helped lead the country away from a communist system and towards a democratic capitalist one.
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